Although Christianity is experiencing a comeback under Putin’s Russia, the relationship between the Kremlin and the Church hasn’t always been trouble-free. Following Karl Marx’s idea that religion is the “opium of the people,” the Soviet Union set out to eradicate organized faith entirely, with the Russian Orthodox Church being its primary target. In the attempt to convert the whole nation into atheism, Lenin and his successors persecuted believers and most members of the clergy, sending Chri... Tags: Travel, Putin, Nazis, Russia, Church, Unesco, New York Times, Arctic, Moscow, Ussr, Karl Marx, Kremlin, Kiev, All, White Sea, Yuri Gagarin

By KRISTEN GELINEAU
SYDNEY — The gunman behind at least one of the mosque shootings in New Zealand that left 49 people dead on Friday tried to make a few things clear in the manifesto he left behind: He is a 28-year-old Australian white nationalist who hates immigrants. He was angry about attacks in Europe that were perpetrated by Muslims. He wanted revenge, and he wanted to create fear.
He also, quite clearly, wanted attention.
Though he claimed not to covet fame, the gunman — whose name was no... Tags: Europe, News, France, China, Nazis, Uncategorized, Sport, World news, Soccer, United States, Nato, Sydney, New Zealand, Norway, Donald Trump, Adolf Hitler

The headline How to Spot a Jew graced Poland's right-wing national weekly newspaper Tylko Polska. Said headline was an angry response to a panel discussion of Poland's complicit citizenry during the Holocaust at a recent Paris conference.
Newsweek:
The anti-Semitic headline ran alongside the front page article complaining that speakers at last month’s Holocaust studies meeting in Paris had been attacking Poland. It was printed with a photo of Jan Gross, a Polish Jew who teaches at Princeton U... Tags: Post, News, Nazis, Paris, Poland, Anti-semitism, Adolf Hitler, Auschwitz, Republic of Poland, Jan Gross, Tylko Polska Said, Princeton University Gross

The Me-262 was well ahead of its time. If the Nazis had had greater access to refined metals for the jet engines, more fuel reserves, and more time, then things might have played out somewhat differently toward the end of the war. The fact remains that the ground-breaking jet truly set the course for the future of aviation history. Tags: Science, Nazis, Hitler

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Monday couldn’t name one instance of President Donald Trump denouncing Rep. Steve King (R-IA) for his various endorsements of white nationalism — even though she asserted a few seconds earlier that anti-Semitism is “ something that should be called by name.”
In a press briefing Monday, Sanders refused to answer several times whether — as he’s said in public and private in recent days — Trump actually believes that Democrats belong to an ... Tags: News, White House, Nazis, Israel, Nbc News, House, Jackson, Republican, Donald Trump, Abc News, Trump, Sanders, Karl, Steve King, Hallie Jackson, Steve King R IA

WHOA, YOU DON’T SAY? Man, I am so tired of anti-vaxxers.
I don’t know if you’ve been paying attention for the last, oh, couple decades but we’ve got a lot on our collective plate these days, guys. The planet is warming, the bees (and roughly a third of the rest of life on earth) are dying, Nazis have made a comeback, Trump is still somehow the president which is bad news for the planet and the bees but a big up for the Nazis, and I’ve had What’s New Pussycat by Tom Jones stuck in my hea... Tags: Nazis, Humor, Denmark, Tom Jones, Gracie Hughes, Trump, Andrew Wakefield

Joe Wright is heading back to World War II for his next project. The director of the Oscar-winning Winston Churchill biopic Darkest Hour is in talks to helm In the Garden of Beasts, based on the book of the same name by Devil in the White City author Erik Larson. The story follows a mild-mannered Chicago professor who becomes America’s first ambassador to Hitler’s Germany on the cusp of World War II.
Variety broke the news that Wright is in final negotiations to direct the In The Garden of B... Tags: Garden, Europe, Movies, Germany, Nazis, Berlin, America, Chicago, Tom Hanks, Thriller, Winston Churchill, Adaptation, Hitler, Gary Oldman, Hulu, True Story

Joe Wright to direct WWII drama In the Garden of Beasts
Director Joe Wright is revisiting WWII. The Darkest Hour and Atonement director is in final talks to helm In the Garden of Beasts, according to Variety. The film is an adaptation of author Erik Larson’s 2011 novel of the same name.
The book is based on the true story of William Dodd, a Chicago professor who becomes America’s first ambassador to Hitler’s Germany, prior to the Nazis invasion of Europe. Upon their arrival, his family embra... Tags: Garden, Europe, Movies, Germany, Nazis, Berlin, America, Chicago, Tom Hanks, State Department, Hitler, Gary Oldman, Wright, Ryan, Dodd, Erik Larson

Pope Francis has announced that he will open up the Vatican’s secret archives on the papacy of Pope Pius XII, who has been accused of failing to speak up about the Nazis’ persecution of the Jews. Historians have for decades been calling on the Holy See to let scholars study the archives, in order to determine whether Pius XII failed to use his moral authority to oppose the Holocaust. The argument that Pius should have been far more vocal in condemning the Nazis’ annihilation of six million Jews ... Tags: Europe, News, Germany, Nazis, Israel, Church, Rome, Pope Francis, Italy, Vatican, Catholic Church, South America, Catholic, Pope, Nazi, Hitler

Via WRSA, this report is interesting and bracing, and I confess it’s a part of history I have never studied enough.
Between October of 1944 and January of 1945, when the Second World War has not yet finished, a military court attached to the Second Polish People’s Army is formed, akin to the Soviets. The court, chaired by a Red Army veteran, Colonel Stefan Piekarski, and under the supervision of Soviet Colonel Aleksander Tomaszewski, condemns 144 prisoners; of them, 61 of them are condemned to d... Tags: Politics, Nazis, Military, Jesus, Red Army, People 's Army, WRSA, Uroczysko Baran, Stefan Piekarski, Aleksander Tomaszewski, Kąkolewnica, Kąkolewnicy

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has condemned an attack on a Holocaust memorial in the French city of Strasbourg. Netanyahu on Sunday condemned the “horrific, anti-Semitic” defacing of a monument marking the site of a synagogue destroyed by the Nazis in 1940. French police on Saturday launched an investigation the incident, in […] Tags: News, Nazis, Jerusalem, Ap, Nation, Benjamin Netanyahu, Strasbourg Netanyahu

PARIS (AP) — French police are investigating after a memorial stone marking the site of a former synagogue destroyed by the Nazis was vandalized in the eastern city of Strasbourg. The prefecture of the Bas-Rhin region said in a statement the heavy memorial stone was discovered moved from its base Saturday morning. Strasbourg mayor Roland […] Tags: News, France, Nazis, Ap, Nation, Paris, Strasbourg, Roland

Marble slab knocked off plinth at site of synagogue ransacked by Hitler Youth in 1940A memorial stone marking the site of Strasbourg’s Old Synagogue, which was destroyed by the Nazis in the second world war, has been vandalised, the deputy mayor of the eastern French city said.“A new incident of antisemitism in our town,” Alain Fontanel wrote on Twitter, posting a picture showing a large black marble slab that had been knocked off its plinth. Continue reading... Tags: Europe, France, Nazis, World news, Strasbourg, Hitler, Antisemitism, Alain Fontanel